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Dear Alex: My mind's made up. Don't try to confuse me
with facts. Der Quibblemeister
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My mind's made up. Don't try to confuse me with facts. That's what my mother says!
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6 Remember him-before the silver cord is severed,
or the golden bowl is broken;
before the pitcher is shattered at the spring,
or the wheel broken at the well,
7 and the dust returns to the ground it came from,
and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
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"And rember, we havn't found any \
dictionary confirmation of "chuffed" meaning unhappy.
Have you got any?"
"Chaffed", mebbe?
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"There was only occasional gunfire."
Beg to differ, wwh.
Your variation does not describe the relative quiet in Fallujah as accurately as "gunfire was largely silenced".
What is being described is not a random lull in the fighting, but a silence imposed by the threat of imminent reprisals or by actual reprisals.
Sad to say, but no-one thinks this quiet will be "silenced" for long.
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"largely silenced" is a bit like "mostly a virgin" or "a little bit pregnant."
Not the same thing, though Alex. "Silence" is at one end of a scale, with "(a word meaning total noise)" at the other. You can, therefore, say "almost silent" to indicate how far along that scale you are.
Pregnancy is an absolute; a binary condition; on or off - either you is or you ain't.
The only scale is that which has fallen of the eye of the ex-maiden concerned.
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